The Chapel

THE RISE Hudson, R. V., Megginson, S. J., Ryder, P. D., Thompson, G. G.

SCHOOL HOUSE Andrews, S. J., Barton, A. T., Buckle, S. M., Buckley, M. R., Islam, A., Linton, T. C., Miller, A. J. B., Owen, R. M., Sharp, R. G., Storey, J. M. V.

TEMPLE Dixon, S. M., Stafford, P. M., Walker, A. K.

Elsewhere in the Peterite we shall read of what the School owed to Freddie Waine. On 1st June we were able to give thanks to God for his devoted work at St. Peter's in such a wide variety of ways, and for the joy his friendship brought us. It was such a happy thought to provide a choir of Freddie's "old boys". Not often can an ad hoc choir have sung so beautifully with so little rehearsal. It was a real work of love.

How Freddie would have enjoyed this year's Pilgrimage of St. Peter in the Minster! The service was given a tremendous "lift" by our quartet of trumpeters, who adorned the hymns with descants and exciting fanfares especially composed by Mr. Pemberton.

In spite of the onset of "broken" voices among the trebles the choir were able to give a very confident performance of Charles Wood's D major setting of Evensong on 5th July. The practice of singing full Evensong before the Choir Supper seems to be becoming a regular one. Long may it remain!

Throughout the term we have enjoyed the sight of Mr. Gaastra's inspiring altar frontal. Now the sanctuary has been further enhanced with two remarkable standard candlesticks "potted" by Tim Stephenson, who spent a large amount of time and trouble over their design and manufacture.

We were very happy to have the Dean of York to preside at our first Family Communion of the term and give the address. And we are most grateful to our three visiting preachers, the Rev. A. Cornes, the Rev. A. M. A. Turnbull and the Rev. P. Southwell-Sander who came especially from London.

The term ended in the traditional way with the Commemoration Service and some splendid congregational singing. However, tradition was broken by the invitation to a layman to preach the sermon. David Blunt, the lay Chaplain to the Archbishop of York, was at one time House Master of Wentworth and is a devoted friend of St. Peter's. So it is no wonder that his sermon was wholly on our "wave-length" with its searching refrain: "Is all well?"

Finally a word of warm appreciation of the faithful work week by week of our triumvirate of Chapel Monitors, Jeremy Beadle, James Clappison and David Livingston. Is a new tradition in the making? N.H.K.-W.